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where. He tried to dodge taxes on
them.
When the, state's attorney asked
him what he was going to do he sent
Alfred S. Austrian to the front as his
lawyer. Austrian answered a list of
questions sent him by Henry Berger,
assistant state's attorney.
This letter of Austrian's shows
how the family of one of Chicago's
most famous grain gamblers and an
old pal of Marshall Field have scat
tered over the world, most of the
women fhto the blooded aristocracy
of England. Answering as to where
is the residence of each of the trus
tees under the will of Levi Z. Leiter,
Austrian says Nancy Lathrop Carver
Leiter did live in Washington, D. C,
but is now married to Colin Campbell
and their residence is at Savernoke,
Forest, Marlborough, Eng. Margarite
Hyde Leiter also used to hve in Wash
ington, but is now married to the
Earl of Suffolk and resides at Chats
ford, Eng.
Getting down to the business
State's Attorney Hoyne was after,
Austrian admitted that Seymour;
Morris, another trustee, lives in Chi
cago. Under the theory that a trus
tee living in Chicago and holding
property in Chicago ought to pay
taxes right here in Cook county, Hay
den Bell went before the Board of Re
view. All three members of the
board, Roy 0, West, Fred Blocki and
Thomas Webb, told. Bell they had
cancelled the assessment on the two
notes for $1,900,000. They didn't be
lieve the Leiter estate should be as
sessed on these two slips of paper.
Bell had a stenographer along. He
took down all the statements of
Board of Review members in favor of
"fixing" the taxes. Bell then shot a
bolt. He told the Board of Review
men he was going to have a complete
copy of all evidence in the case writ
ten out, along with the opinions of
the Board of Review.
"I believe your theory of law in
this is not correct," said Bell. "I
shall insist that you sign a certificate
of evidence, so that I can carry thi3
case to the supreme court."
Before Bell got back a few hours
later with the evidence to be signed
by the review board, all three of
them, West, Blocki and Webb, had
unanimously agreed to make thS, as
sessment. "
This is a sample tax case, i Ques
tion: Who was it that tried to beat
the school children of Chicago out
of better school houses and more
playgrounds through stopping the
proper 'flow of tax money into the
city and county treasury?
One other little point ought to get
into the story. That was Al -Austrian's
explanation of why these two
little slips of paper happen to be in
Chicago instead bf somewhere else.
Austrian wrote: "In September, 1913,
Joseph Leiter, who may properly be
called the managing trustee of the
estate, started upon a yachting trip
around the world, to be gone about a
year, and as a matter of convenience
in the collection of interest during
his absence these particular notes
were left with Seymour Morris, so
that when Mrs. Neuberger should
make payments of interest the notes
would be accessible."
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NOW DENIES STORY HE FIRST
TOLD OF KILLING
Champaign, III., Nov. 6. Scott
Stone, Tolono farmer, who confessed
in St. Louis to dynamiting his home
and killing his wife and five children
at Tolono in order to marry a woman
of a Champaign resort, today gave a
new version of the tragedy, claiming
the dynamiting story was fiction and
that he only set fire to the house after
finding that his wife had shot her
children and herself.
THAT EMPTY BENCH.
While the politicians are squabbling
the federal bench left open by the
retirement of Judge Grosscup has
not been filled. But it now appears
that with the defeat of Roger Sulli
van and the undivided distribution o
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